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Kaminario
Silk is a technology company headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. Silk offers a cloud platform for enterprise customers with mission-critical applications. The company has offices in Boston and Israel. History CEO, Dani Golan, founded Silk in 2008. Originally called Kaminario, after the Japanese god of lightning, the company was a flash storage start-up. The company's first venture capital funding round was announced in May 2011 with a $15 million investment from Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital. Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital and existing investors. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, and existing investors. In 2017, the company evolved to focus purely on storage software in a Storage as a Service model. It partnered with Tech Data Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitango Venture Capital
Pitango Venture Capital, established in 1993, is Israel's largest venture capital fund with over $1.8 billion under management. Pitango is focused on seed, expansion and late stage companies in core technologies, consumer, and Life Sciences. The firm's investors include Time Warner, Citigroup, Eastman Kodak, Deutsche Bank and HarbourVest Partners. History The fund was founded as Polaris Venture Capital in 1993 by Rami Kalish, as part of a government initiative named the Yozma program ("Initiative" in Hebrew); which offered attractive tax incentives to any foreign venture-capital investments in Israel and offered to double any investment with funds from the government. In 1996, Kalish was joined by Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, to create Polaris Fund II, which raised more than $100 million. Polaris II invested in 35 high-tech companies. Some were partially funded by another Israeli VC firm, Eucalyptus Ventures. When the investments proved successful, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Founder (company)
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones. An entrepreneur is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards.The process of setting up a business is known as entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures. More narrow definitions have described entrepreneurship as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often similar to a small business, or as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit." The people who create these businesses are often referred to as entrepreneurs. While defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
